Bad Stuff, Good Stuff

I seem to be walking around in a half-asleep haze this week. Six hours of sleep on Sunday, five hours yesterday, six today... I just keep waking up too damned early and not being able to get back to sleep. It's really starting to irritate me. I know that people on night shifts generally average around five hours of sleep a night, so I guess it's not that out of the ordinary, but I usually don't have any trouble sleeping during the day. I think maybe part of the problem is that it's been cloudy outside. I wake up, the dim lighting fools my body into being sure that it's nearing sunset, and it refuses to go back to sleep.

Tomorrow doesn't look very promising, either, sleep-wise, as there was a message on my answering machine from my ISP when I got up saying that they might be able to come and install my wireless equipment tomorrow. Which, if true, means I'm going to have to be up to let them in. On the other hand... Let's look at the relevant part of that first sentence again: they might be able to come and install my wireless equipment tomorrow. Yes, that's right, as early as tomorrow, I might have my broadband connection! (Um, sorry about all the italics. I'm excited.) This represents an important first step in my plan of eventually becoming a brain in a vat with a direct neural hookup to the internet. Yippee!